Sherry Thomas

I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here.""I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal.""Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows.

Fortune favors the brave."Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!

I__e always loved you,_ he said, his eyes a blue that was almost violet. __ou know this._ She swallowed a lump in her throat. __ only wonder whether I deserve such devotion.___ometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is,_ he said with a quiet intensity. __hat I give, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation.

Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.

You can live forever for me.

Her jaw dropped. She grabbed him by the shoulders. __ think I have formed an attachment to you. You know, what the English call a desire to have symphonic concerts with someone at all hours of the day?__e smiled. __nd I love you too, darling._-Lizzy and Will

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.

You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.

Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.

That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman's existence.

Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.

To the beginning of the rest of our lives.- Leo

I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.

Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They__ grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she__ been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.

Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn__ know my name and barely knew my face.- Leo

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.